dividebyzero
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You don't think it likely that the previous driver issued three weeks before the actual game launch wasn't as optimal as it could have been? Are you somehow expecting 97+% of final performance from drivers for games yet to be released?
So for instance-in your idealized world, this driver and Catalyst 12.2 should provide ~97% of the atttainable performance for Borderlands 2, Mass Effect 3, etc. Seems fairly unrealistic to expect a driver team to nail down anything approaching that number with limited access to the code and/or exhaustive beta testing.
It also seems unrealistic to lambast a driver with "We did a terrible job before and our previous drivers were rubbish", when 1. It presents a corner case in one game, and 2. is obviously, like all driver release game gains, a measure of hyperbole, and 3. is certainly no more outrageous- and in some cases much better (see the Catalyst links I posted) than anyone else in the industry.
Seems odd that in all the years here you decide to deride a driver that is certainly nowhere near the levels of bombast found in my others, and choose to highlight a number that makes a comparison from a pre-release driver to (fairly) mature one
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